Comment on Your Windows 10 PC will soon be 'junk' - users told to resist Microsoft deadline

• InvaderDJ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They can keep supporting windows 10. They made money when windows 10 was installed on that computer, so they should support it.

  They have though. For ten years.

  I’m sympathetic to MS trying to force updates along. One big problem especially in Enterprise is that the requirement to support ancient OSes and hardware causes unnecessary work, and holds back progress. Look at IE. Or Vista’s performance issues caused by underpowered GPUs.

  The question is how long do you support and how forceful are you on requiring upgrades? Linux distros have LTS releases and generally do a great job on long term support, but even they will start deprecating branches.

  There has to be a middle ground.

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  • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Are you back to this again? We just went through it, if you bought a computer last year that can’t run windows 11, then no it’s not 10 years. It’s 3.

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    • InvaderDJ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      We’re talking two similar but different issues. The first one is support of the OS in general. The OS released 10 years ago, MS supported it for 10 years. The second is how do they handle people who bought computers a year or two or three or whatever after Windows 10 release that had an older CPU. That is where I think there should be some wiggle room. Just put in an easy way to check in the install for example that the user understands that they’re on borrowed time, but they can update to Windows 11. Or if they have to, extend Windows 10 security updates for another year or two. My preference would be allow Windows 11 upgrade, but I’m not hard line on it.

      The important part is that there has to be a middle ground. Every OS can not be supported indefinitely on every permutation of hardware without cutoff. But there needs to be flexibility for reasonably modern hardware that can run an OS while maybe not supporting some features or just being old enough where support becomes overly cumbersome.

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      • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yes I know, you keep talking about the start of sale for some reason and I’m trying to correct you that it’s not the start. It’s when products are purchased. When. The. Product. Is. Purchased. When you purchase a product, you should get support for it. 3 years is disgustingly pitiful. 5 years is still pitiful. It’s only 10 years if you were an extremely early adopter, first out of the gate. Again, it’s when the product is purchased. From the end of sales. Not the start of sales. The end of sales. JFC.

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